white pine shaping

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white pine shaping

Post by treeman »

I decided to do something with this tree which has been sitting around for years. One of a group of seedlings sown in 2000.
It's pretty ordinary material but something had to be done with it.
Is it a bit late to do this on a white pine?...Yes!
Do I care? Not really..


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You would think with all these branches there are many options, but sadly, no....
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The entire top of the tree was useless so that was the first to go. I had no plans for this tree, just made decisions on the run
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It had 3 branches down low all coming from the same place. The front one was cut off post haste!
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The new leader had a long bare area
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So that was shortened as well.
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I decided to use the left branch because the right one was completely featureless and lacked anything much to work with - not the the left was much better
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The new leader was wired and brought back to the centre and forward a tad. I had to finish this first before I could decide how the main branch would work with it. Up?, down?, long?, short? etc
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Apex more or less worked out
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The branch came off the tree upwards so I didn't try forcing it down
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Instead I brought it down further along
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Next couple of pics show the shortened branch and some manipulation of the very sparse branching
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That's it for now. A very conventional and non-dramatic tree but at least it has a future.
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In about 10 years :fc:
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Re: white pine shaping

Post by rodm »

Yep that’ll do :clap: :hooray:
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Re: white pine shaping

Post by Pat3222 »

Thanks for sharing, very helpful for newbies like myself seeing the process you go through. Probably more important for me, a lesson in not trying to preserve the size of larger material just because it's bigger than my twigs.
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Re: white pine shaping

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:cool:
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